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Within 10 minutes of Friday night's shooting that left off-duty city police Sgt. Keith McNeill critically wounded, police were hot on the trail of the suspect, 34-year-old Gregg Thomas.

At Thomas' bail hearing Tuesday, a prosecutor said a Lincoln Continental had been identified as the vehicle used in the shooting. Police stopped it and learned that the driver said he'd been given the car by Thomas, who wasn't in the car at the time of the stop. The car was registered to Thomas' sister, who had been told by the driver to report the car stolen.

Monday night, Thomas' mother, Sharon Walker, said the stolen car report is what drew police to her house.

"My daughter called them and said her car was stolen. After that, they came up on my house," Walker said.

The prosecutor also revealed Tuesday that police found a .45-caliber gun inside Thomas' home. Ballistic testing, the prosecutor said, matched it to the weapon used Friday night.

McNeill was shot as many as 11 times Friday evening as he sat in his personal vehicle outside an auto repair shop on Belair Road. McNeill is a motorcycle enthusiast and used the shop, the I-Team has learned, to work on his bike. He was off duty and out of uniform at the time of the shooting.

It is still unknown whether McNeill was targeted or mistaken for someone else.

Thomas is the only suspect named so far. The driver of the car Friday evening has not been identified or charged.

Thomas' lawyer argued for some bail to be set, saying Thomas' father is a minister and he has twin 12-year-old girls. But Thomas also has a second-degree murder conviction in his past. The judge kept him on no bail status.

Thomas' brother, Lamont Thomas, was in federal court Tuesday on charges of federal drug violations after getting stopped on Interstate 95 a week ago in Cecil County. Inside the car he was driving, according to charging documents, police found cocaine worth nearly half a million dollars that was hidden in a secret compartment installed in the vehicle. Police have said Lamont Thomas' case is not connected to the officer's shooting.